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A Midsummer Night’s Dream. American wedding dream in Tuscany

Gabriele Fogli — Fri, 31 May 2019 15:18:07 +0000

Tuscany is a beautiful land. This is where Marykate and Alessandro decided to swear their eternal love. The couple chose Florence, the beautiful Ognissanti church, Ponte Vecchio in Florence, as scenes of an exclusive, romantic wedding, immersed in the history of one of the most fascinating places in Italy and of the world.

The organization of the marriage was entrusted to Valentina of “Il Mio matrimonio”.

As photographers and videomakers work for a wedding in Florence is a great pleasure, but at the same time it is a task of great responsibility. Wedding photography in one of the oldest cities of Italy, where at every corner you find a unique piece of art and history, means managing frames with great sensitivity, sobriety and concentration on the subjects.

As professional photographers, we must not let ourselves get carried away, we must not fall into the temptation to shift our attention towards the city, overshadowing the true protagonists of the story. The wedding reportage must look at the landscape and make it part of the story, but it is the couple, their steps, their friends, their smiles that tell the main story.

Coming out of the city we find tuscany landscapes that have inspired poets and writers, breathtaking views of extreme romanticism. Avoiding falling into the obvious rhetoric of images already seen is not at all obvious. The location chosen for a reception with elegant and shabby chic notes: the spacious and ancient rooms and gardens of Villa I Morulli, a historic home on the outskirts of Florence, surrounded by the green hills that enclose the eternal city.

“La tua virtù è la mia sicurezza.
E allora non è notte se ti guardo in volto,
e perciò non mi par di andar nel buio,
e nel bosco non manco compagnia
perché per me tu sei l’intero mondo.
E come posso dire d’esser sola
se tutto il mondo è qui che mi contempla?“.

From: William Shakespeare – “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.

Ph: Focale Wedding. Florence.

Our wedding reportage of Mary Kate and Alessandro was so appreciated that it was published by some of the most well-known and important web portals in the Wedding in Italy:

Click below to read the full article published on Zankyou:

Focale Wedding on Zankyou

Click below to read the full article published on Switch magazine sposa:

Focale Wedding on Switch Magazine

Click below to read the full article published on DESTINATION WEDDING IN ITALY:

Fotografia e arte: il fotografo Gabriele Fogli interpreta Giovanni Boldini e Shakespeare

Gabriele Fogli — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 16:34:17 +0000

Here we see a fashion bride photo shoot by Gabriele Fogli with a romantic mood, ethereal, suspended in time inspired by the painting art of Giovanni Boldini and the poetry of Shakespeare‘s tales.Who was Giovanni Boldini? He was one of the most popular painters of the aristocracy of the Belle Epoque: Giovanni Boldini was an artist who knew how to portray women with a sensitivity that enhances the beauty and movement. Giovanni Boldini, portrait and painter and traveler, lived between 1842 and 1931 among Italy, England and France. He loved the luxury of the aristocracy and the pretty girls that he fascinated with his great personality. In his love life, there were many love stories, storms and twists. His female figures are self-confident, strong and determined to succeed in life and in society.

Determination, tenderness, coquetry or strength of mind: every canvas of Giovanni Boldini is a study about men and women.
The idea of continuous movement. The characters of his work are depicted as if they were pictures taken during the action, like photographs from long exposure where the bottom is moving and the subject will be frozen by a slight stroke of flash.

Behind the creative concept of this amazing fashion story and photo project there is a dual inspirational source.
We see the portraits, the dynamic movement in frozen situations, we see the luxurious atmosphere of the environments, we appreciate the soft colors. everything bring to the Giovanni Boldini’s paintings.

In the other hand the mood evoked thanks to strong design and a set of impact squeeze the eye the imaginative creativity of Shakespeare and especially to his play Midsummer Night’s Dream: a play that conjures magic and supernatural love to create a fairytale world.
Gabriele Fogli photographer taking hints from the play, mix together different styles and

“romance, dreams and the wild feeling of everlasting love“…

As scenery of this fashion story, Gabriele Fogli chose Sorrento, not far from Naples in Italy. The location of this shooting day was the luxurious Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria in Sorrento, Italy. The hotel sits atop a cliff above the shining waters of the Gulf of Naples, with Mount Vesuvius rising proudly in the distance. The Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria is famous for its terrace and breath-taking views, it’s positively enthralling and a great backdrop for enchanting bridal fashion editorial shooting.
The bride is draped in Enzo Miccio dresses. Enzo Miccio is a great italian wedding planner and event planner, set designer, stylist and wedding stylist, he works with excellence in the sector of luxury weddings. For Enzo, it was his first experience as a stylist and set designer working on stage on a real fashion shooting. He worked very well on every shot offering all his support and all his great professionalism to make every scene flawless, exciting as they should, evocative like a dream. The end result is a photo project accurate and refined as if it were an advertising shoot rather than a fashion editorial.The fashion bride, Madeline @ Monster Milano with porcelain fragility, waits anxiously for her love. Her hair is styled in waves, swept back in a crown of flowers –almost nymph-like. Makeup was designed by Sandra Lovisco to be flawless and natural, with light rosy and peach accents and alabaster skin. Lips are full and glossy like ripe plums.

All the photos of the shooting are publicated also on Strictly Weddings

Gabriele Fogli’s photo shoot was appreciated and published in the well-known Wedding Strictly Weddings Magazine

Click the button below to enjoy our fashion video directed, filmed and edited by Tommaso Preziosi:

watch the fashion movie

Shooting credits:

Production: Focale
Photographer: Gabriel Fogli
Styling, set design: Enzo Miccio
Film maker: Tommaso Preziosi
Hair& Makeup: Sandra Lovisco
Model: Madeline @ Monster
Location: Grand Hotel Vittoria Sorrento
Photo Assistant: Giorgio Attanasio and Mario Barbieri

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Wet wedding party in the rain

sublimio — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 09:27:47 +0000

Nicol and Antonio’s wedding was one of the most beautiful wedding we work for in Piedmont (in italian: Piemonte), very close to Asti wine valleys.

We work very often for weddings and events in Piedmont. A strategic area not vey far from Liguria, Lombardy, Valle d’Aosta, and Emilia Romagna, as well as from France and Switzerland. To get there, fly to Genoa, Florence or Milan and then take a regional train.

The real jewel of this region full of Green and hills, is the grape. The purpose of the Piedmont is wine, and there, they take care of it very seriously. Although it is not known for tourism as other places in Italy, Piedmont is an ideal place for shooting outdoors where you can enjoy landscapes and backgrounds with soft romantic lines.

Piedmont is also typical for the “Spumante” (like Champagne) of Asti and it’s the homeland of grapes such as Nebbiolo, Barbera, Dolcetto, Brachetto and Moscato, which are used to produce some of the world’s best-loved wines such as Barolo and Barbaresco. Twelve wines from this region enjoy the estimated DOCG (Denomination of Controlled and Guaranteed Origin) classification. You can not say that the people here do not know how to appreciate the beauty and the good things of life!

Anyway, even if usually this is a sunny area during summertime period, that days it started raining very hard.
No problem for our positive and energetic spouses! Nicol and Antonio, our beautiful married couple, decided to have fun anyway and started dancing in the wet grass of their beautiful villa with their parents and friends! This triggered a contagious effect of pleasant euphoria which made the celebration lively and fun as no one could ever imagine! !

In this amazing photo, we catch the brother of the bride, throwing rose petals in the wind… under the rain… while everyone began to realize that the rain was coming strong and that it would have been a very different unusual wedding party…

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Wedding in Cinque Terre: Porto Venere

sublimio — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 15:02:10 +0000

Imagine the beauty of getting married in a very old church overlooking the sea and in the heart of the Cinque Terre in Italy!
These our photos show you the ancient Church of San Pietro in Porto Venere, perched in a typical small Ligurian town: Porto Venere, overlooking the Gulf of La Spezia also called the Gulf of Poets.

This short photo reportage has been made by our wedding photographer in Genoa. The experienced eye for landscape and architecture, is a powerful PLUS for all those who work with portrait photography.
The spatial composition, the geometry, the perspective are crucial aspects that must be dominated by the professional wedding photographer.  In other hand, if it stands in front of you so much architectural beauty, let’s fascinating your self by the images and the beautiful light of these photos.

Marriage in the Church of St. Peter in Porto Venere is a very exclusive experience.

St. Peter in Cinque Terre is a ancient abbey dating back to 1100, built on the ruins of a pagan temple dedicated to Venus (from which the adjacent town is named): the church is dedicated and named after its patron saint San Pietro. An intimate dimension, certainly not suitable for weddings with large numbers of guests, unless you choose to reserve the time of the ceremony only a few close friends and relatives.

The church of St. Peter, is decorated throughout with white and black marble.
It’s one of the most beautiful and evocative churches along all the coasts of Italy and perhaps of the world.
An ideal place for those who love the sea and want the sea itself as a special guest at their own wedding.
It’s the perfect church for people who love the taste of bygone days.
The church of San Pietro is the perfect place to get married if you love the distant and severe abbeys of Ireland and Scotland: it’s a magical place that excites also plain and free of any ceremonial preparation.

The church is also very cool and breezy during the hot summer time and ideal for not discard in their long dresses of ceremony and the view leaves everyone breathless even before the entrance of the bride in the church! The bell also, the arrival of the bride, plays the notes of a fascinating wedding march!

Useful info about San Pietro in Porto Venere:
Porto Venere is a small town, very touristy and with limited parking. There are not railway stations, but there are bus from La Spezia every hour.  Studying well the organization of the event is providential in this case.

It’s advisable to park the car of your guests in the free car parking before arriving in the city. From there you can organize shuttle buses that lead to the main square of Porto Venere.  The church is only at 5 minute walk from there. Disabled and elderly people, could be particularly strenuous walk on rough roads of the small seaside town.

For a wedding party and a wedding reception in the neighborhood, one solution would be to move to the Castle of Lerici or in one of the many restaurants overlooking the bay.  For a super exclusive wedding party for a limited number of guests only, take advantage of the tourist port of Porto Venere, to embark you and your guests on a amazing yacht to have a weding lunch or a wedding dinner on board.

About the wedding photos in Portovenere, the area around the church of San Pietro offers a multitude of scenarios: the Fortress, for example, with its enviable view, is located on the top of the hill close to the city.

The terrace above the church:

Byron’s cave with its cliff overlooking the Ligurian Sea:

Porto Venere is a great, exclusive place for a eternal, amazing, pure wedding by the sea.
If you are looking for a wedding photographer in the Cinque Terre and Porto Venere or La Spezia, focalewedding is the ideal choice: we know well the places and we know how to move around with professionalism. Moreover, living now in the city of Genoa, there will be no extra fee due to the distances.

Cinque Terre in Italy are a great place for a wedding by the sea to remember forever.

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